Add AddThis Welcome Bar to Blogger

Blogging isn't just about building traffic. it is also about maintaining it. But for that traffic to be of any use to you, you should a good conversion rate, whereby visitors to your site at least take some action such as following you on Twitter, subscribing for your newsletter, visiting your old posts, and so on. There are many ways to increase your conversion. Here's another one. Add a welcome bar at the top of your website, and include calls to actions, such as sharing your page or liking it. That way, people can have easy access to your pages and links. The bar is provided by AddThis, a large sharing platform, and we have been showing you various sharing options for your blog that they provide. Here, we will show you how to use, and customize this bar.

The welcome bar is as yet in its beta form, but it works with all major browsers except Internet Explorer 7 and below. You can add custom greetings with it and hence increase your conversion rate. You can invite people to visit a certain page on your website, or share your page on a social media, or to follow you on a certain social media. You can set customized greetings, so visitors from a particular website get a specific message.

How it works?

It works in a very simple way. You simply paste a piece of JavaScript and CSS code anywhere on a page you want the bar to show up on. Ideally, you should put it on your homepage, but you are free to add it anywhere you like. It works like this. When a visitor from Facebook lands on your page, he sees a response relevant to Facebook, such as "Like us on Facebook" of " Share this page on Facebook" etc. Similarly, Twitter users will see a Tweet button, and so on. These responses are totally customizable, and so are the websites users are coming from.

Adding the welcome bar

To add a welcome bar to your blog, visit the AddThis page, and log in, or create an account if you don't already have one. You can create one through Facebook if you like. You will then be taken to a dashboard-like page, where you can create a custom welcome bar for your blog.

Customize Messages

In this region, you get the option to customize your messages. From the left sidebar, you can add a website, so that visitors from that site get a specific response. For example, if you wrote an article on EzineArticles, and people are coming from there to your site, then you can add a message that says something like "Thank you for reading our article and visiting us", or something similar. it's up-to you. The sky's the limit. Select each website, and you will see its options on the right.

On the right side, you can change the message text, and the button text. The button is what will contain the call to action, such as "Share us" or "Follow us". You can select from three button actions, Share, Follow, and Go to URL. Custom responses for Facebook, Twitter and Google are already there. All the changes that you make can be seen on the live preview on the right.

You can add another by clicking Add visitor type. It will then show you a pop up.

if you click on "Any other Visitor", you can customize messages for all people who have not landed via your listed websites.

Finalize appearance and add to your site

Once your messages are done, you can move on to customizing the look of the bar. You can change the background and text colors, button color, and button text color. You can choose from a full set of Hex colors (16 Million colors).

Notice that you also have the option to auto-hide the bar after a set amount of time. Once you are done with the design, you can see the live preview in the Customize messages section. If you like it, you can simply copy the code generated, and paste it into your page. We advise you to backup your page source code or template before pasting, so that you can revive changes if you accidentally overwrite a piece of code.

It's a simple enough process. If you want to further customize the bar, or if you want to know more, just take a look at the Welcome bar API. And if you have questions, feel free to ask them in the section below :)

5 Best Ways Bloggers Can Do Keyword Research

Your online Money Making business highly depends upon your understanding about two things in particular, first being the most productive domain to start with, and next to it is an effective Keyword research. Keywords are the most powerful ingredient of your Search Engine Optimization which drives traffic to your site from the search results. However, attracting a considerable traffic to your site/blog is directly related to your knowledge about the keywords utility. This means that you need to think from your potential visitor’s point of view that what he might be looking for. Effective keyword research does not only drive traffic, in fact beside increasing your followers, it helps boosting your overall site statistics, while on the other hand, generating huge revenue.

Things to Take Care of

As the competition is increasing in every domain, your potential readers/clients/ followers might not know about your existence even. This means that they might not be searching your company on the search engines, in fact, they would look for the services that the domain you own, provides. Now if you are smart enough to show your expertise on SEO, mind it that your readers are not going to anywhere else.

Before we go on with the most useful tips, you need to discover some most common keywords for your niche by answering the following questions.

1. Keywords to Describe Your Site?

2. What’s Unique about your product/services?

3. What makes you better than competitors in your domain?

Once the Idea is clear with sufficient relevant keywords in hand, Now all you need learn is how to do a unique keyword research for your articles to make them SEO friendly each time.

1. Use Google product search

The first name that clicks when you need to search anything is obviously ‘Google’, so why not to start with it? Click on Google Products and enter the major key phrase in the search box. For example, if you are writing an article on London Olympics (the most happening these days), Just like, we have been writing on our Sister Blog, and you will see a drop down with lots of relevant phrases that you can consider your keywords and use them in your post.

Not only this, but you can also click on a particular, most suited phrase to know more about it and find out what is pre-written and what is attracting more traffic. Visitors who come to your blog with the following keywords are determined to know all about you are sharing, decreasing the bounce rate.

2. Use Shopping.com

Just following the same procedure that we shared in tip #1, go to Shopping.com and search for the same topic London Olympics. You will see new phrases appearing in the search, giving you new ideas, first of all, and secondly providing you with a list of keywords that you can include in your post and enjoy targeted visitors who want to search everything about London Olympics.

3.Use Ebay.com

Ebay is yet another great platform when you are looking for worth adding keywords. Whether it’s a product or a service, Ebay is rich enough to hold a great variety on it. Repeat the similar activity that we did for the above two, and you will see all new keywords appearing.

4. Try Amazon.com

Amazed with how easy it is to collect keywords for your post? If not, then try Amazon too. Although following the same procedure, the results are somehow much satisfactory. Enter your main keyword in the search box and you will see set of phrases, that can turn out be the most successful keywords of your post.

5. yahoo product search

Just like Google Product Search, Yahoo is playing it safe with its product search engine, though not that effective as Google, still trying to survive. You can expect some Good keywords with this method too. With the scrolling arrows, you can always explore more phrases to choose best suited keywords for your post.

Keyword research is a highly recommended tip to search about and use in your blogging career. Hope the following tips turn out to be useful enough to give you more relevant keywords for your articles.

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